The toothbrush really works!
16 June 2008
A year ago I spent rather a lot on a new toothbrush. Read here about my new purchase! My toothbrush is the Oral B Triumph 9000, which is pretty much the same as this one. It has 4 settings: clean, massage, soft and polish. I use the polish once a week with Colgate weekly clean toothpaste.
The toothbrush has never caused me any problems and continues to be simple to use. It has a travel case, which is excellent for transporting the toothbrush, which has remained charged for a whole week with no problems. However, the best bit is that my teeth are officially cleaner! We visited the dentist on Friday and yet again I don’t need any treatment. Hurray! I used to have a scale and polish every visit. I hated them more than any other treatment and found it so uncomfortable that I had to have local anaesthetic. I can’t tell you how pleased I am not to need this doing. I asked the dentist (just to be sure, or a glutton for punishment) and she confirmed that there was no need unless I ‘really wanted it’! I don’t think so!
The toothbrushes are expensive when compared to manual toothbrushes, but for the peace of mind and avoiding the dreaded scale and polish, for me anyway, it’s worth every penny.
Buy the Oral B Triumph Professional 9500 from Express Chemist for £119.99 … Click to buy
Buy the Braun 9500 from Comet for £119.99… Click to view
Buy the Oral B triumph D30 SmartGuide from Dixons for £112.63 … Clcik to view
Father’s Day ideas from IWOOT
15 May 2008
Are you looking for some cool Fathers Day products? Take a look at these ideas from Iwantoneofthose.com.
Digital Film Scanner £89.99
The arrival of digital cameras in our lives has revolutionised our picture taking. Now it’s easy to share photos with friends, get prints done on-line or print them at home, make photo albums, mugs, T-Shirts, canvases for your walls, the list is endless. But what about all those great pictures from the past? Bundles of old negatives and slides lie redundant in drawers, and nowadays trying to use them for prints (or anything else on that long list) is a right royal pain. Well help is at hand, now you can easily convert all your favourite old negatives and slides into digital images with the Digital Film Scanner.
The perfect family get-together
19 February 2008
If like us you have a large family and would like a place to stay where you can all be together for a special occasion then we can recommend Milton Brook Estate near to Chester. We needed a venue for Jim’s 50th celebration and were struggling to find somewhere where the whole family; 31 in total, could stay. The age range for us was 5 to 85 and so it was important to find something for everyone. Milton Brook took some finding, but it ticked all the boxes and more. Read more
Disneyland Paris for teenagers?
19 February 2008
This half term we all set off for Disneyland in Paris. Our boys are now 13 and 11 and I did wonder if the park might be a little young for them. The answer in short was no. They had no interest in the various characters that are scattered around the park and in the hotels. Nor were they interested in the Disney parades, which for the littlies are truly magical. However, they enjoyed the more grown up rides, such as Thunder Mountain and especially the Aerosmith ride! The stunt car show was also a fabulous experience that we all enjoyed. Jim and I tried two rides; the more sedate Buzz Lightyear ride where you shoot various targets and the Space Odyssey ride, which we foolishly thought wouldn’t be too ‘thrilling’ as this was Disney after-all! We were wrong and both sat frozen with our eyes tightly shut until the ‘experience’ was over. The boys loved it, but roller-coasters are not for me anymore! Don’t be fooled in to thinking that every ride is tame. I saw lots of very little children going on these rides. I can’t imagine how they coped, but maybe that’s because at my age I can’t enjoy the feeling of being thrown around and racing down steep declines on such rides. Read more
The pefect holiday cottage
30 January 2008
Having stayed here I can recommend these holidays cottages. We stayed last Easter from Monday to Friday, but actually a whole week would have been better. We were blessed with good weather, but that wasn’t what made this break. We stayed in the smaller cottage, Bwythn Pennant, which sleeps 4 in 2 bedrooms. The larger cottage, Melin Hir, sleeps 8. You can book them through Hoseasons in our shop.
The setting is truly breathtaking; the Cwm Pennat Valley in the Snowdonian National Park. The cottages share a garden, which was plenty big enough for a game of football and for the dog to have a run around. There was also a swing and climbing frame. If you have the need to do some washing you’ll find a shared laundry, which is free to use.
I can only speak for Bwthyn Pennant, but it was tastefully and comfortably furnished with the full Sky package available, which was great for us as we didn’t have to miss a football game! You could bake a cake in the kitchen it’s so well stocked with equipment, but having said that we were welcomed with a most delicious chocolate cake and some biscuits for the dog! A welcome pack was also provided with the basics like tea, coffee, butter and bread. Read more
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